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A Compromise Moratorium As vaccine rollout in the United States and other Western-developed countries ramps up, developing countries are mostly still waiting and likely will continue to be further back in the queue for shots. That disparity is fueling a bitter new front in a quarter-century long fight between developed and developing countries over the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) intellectual property rules. When the WTO was created, it came with the Trade-Related Intellectual Property R...

Waiving intellectual property rights could help poor countries get vaccines By The Washington Post Miriam Berger As the coronavirus pandemic rages, World Trade Organization representatives have periodically gathered around a virtual table and clashed over how to more equitably increase global access to vaccines. On one side are the United States and other mainly wealthy Western democracies, where the major pharmaceutical companies developing key vaccines and related medical technologies are bas...

During the AIDS epidemic, countries in the World Trade Organization agreed to put aside differences and issue waivers to increase access to life-saving antivirals. But many people died before they did.

(MENAFN - Gulf Times) Qatar affirmed that the high-level political dialogue between the Iraqi and Qatari judiciaries is one of the fruits of the Global Programme for the Implementation of the Doha Declaration to consolidate the rule of law and enhance the effectiveness of criminal justice systems. The political dialogue between the two countries was held in Vienna on Thursday under the supervision of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), in the presence of HE President of the S...

 19 Feb 2021 - 11:50 QNA Qatar affirmed that the high-level political dialogue between the Iraqi and Qatari judiciaries is one of the fruits of the Global Program for the Implementation of the Doha Declaration to consolidate the rule of law and enhance the effectiveness of criminal justice systems. The political dialogue between the two countries was held in Vienna yesterday under the supervision of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), in the presence of President of the Supr...

Members of the European Parliament have backed a joint proposal by India and South Africa for waiver on intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccine patents.

25 January 2021 - Wits University South Africa has the legal tools to challenge the vaccine nationalism of rich countries. International and national legal frameworks could enable the government to ensure generic Covid-19 vaccines are manufactured locally and in other developing countries, particularly in Africa. The latter point is important as South Africa, through its chairing of the African Union (AU) and its interventions at the United Nations, has emphasised a solidarity-based approach to...

04 November 2015 - Global trade has real impacts on the lives, livelihoods and liberties of people and all else on Earth. Yet, only a handful of people engage in the making of trade rules, leaving the space open for trade negotiators, foreign diplomats and big businesses to set the terms. The rules for global trade are currently made under the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and its agreements. The WTO succeeds the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT 1948-1994), which was meant to bring...

We need a 2nd declaration on WTOs TRIPs, public health: CUTS International SECTIONS Last Updated: Dec 19, 2020, 06:18 PM IST Share Synopsis ​​The WTOs (World Trade Organisation) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights or TRIPS Agreement came into effect in January 1995. It is a multilateral agreement on intellectual property rights such as copyright, industrial designs, patents and protection of undisclosed information or trade secrets. NEW DELHI: The global civ...

Global Judicial Integrity Network Advisory Board holds meeting  14 Dec 2020 - 7:31 Chief Justice of the Supreme Judiciary Council of Qatar H E Dr. Hassan bin Lahdan Al Hassan Al Mohannadi chairs a meeting of Advisory Board of the Global Judicial Integrity Network 2020. QNA Doha: The Advisory Board of the Global Judicial Integrity Network 2020 held its second meeting virtually, headed by Chief Justice of the Supreme Judiciary Council (SJC) of Qatar and President of the Court of Cassation, H ...